Did you know that plants can reduce stress and increase well-being? When Chanje Kunda discovered this, she began to surround herself with them. She also learnt that some women in Mexico, fed up with men, were getting married to trees.

Guy Masterleigh, the leader of the Wales-based fetish group the Tawsingham Society, sent us these photos. Looks like fun. A British heritage-themed fetish meeting group known as the Tawsingham Society was in the news this week for upsetting the neighbours.

A sadomasochist group is one of the first organisations applying to become a community interest company. CICs were introduced in July as part of the Companies Act for organisations operating for the benefit of the community rather than for profit. They include a statutory 'asset lock' to prevent profits being distributed to shareholders.

Members of the kinky group are fuming after someone forgot to use blind copy on a message. Hundreds of students were left red-faced by an email blunder that saw the names released of all members of a fetish society. Every member of the University of York Fetish Society had their name revealed by dozy staff who sent a mass email.

A Fetishist is a person whose sexual desire or gratification is linked to an abnormal degree to a particular object, activity, part of the body, etc. Some switches enjoy changing their power dynamic during the scene. A person who enjoys displaying themselves in a public or semi-public manner in order to attract attention.

BDSM is a variety of often erotic practices or roleplaying involving bondagedisciplinedominance and submissionsadomasochismand other related interpersonal dynamics. Given the wide range of practices, some of which may be engaged in by people who do not consider themselves as practising BDSM, inclusion in the BDSM community or subculture is usually dependent upon self-identification and shared experience. BDSM is now used as a catch-all phrase covering a wide range of activities, forms of interpersonal relationshipsand distinct subcultures. BDSM communities generally welcome anyone with a non-normative streak who identifies with the community; this may include cross-dressersbody modification enthusiasts, animal roleplayersrubber fetishistsand others.

It's Metafilter's 20th anniversary! To celebrate, scan some cats or help fund Mefi! I've been trying to find a dating site in the UK for a while now, but with the exception of OKCupid and Match both of which seem pretty vanilla-centric, for obvious reasons I guess they all seem to feel very scammy.

The government of the UK had previously announced a ban for any sort of fetish porn, ranging from any form of bondage to fisting. The move sparked an outcry from British porn producers as well as kink enthusiasts, who worried that sending homemade videos could put them in legal jeopardy under the Obscene Publications Acta UK law first passed in The Crown Production Service, the government agency charged with monitoring obscene content, has now amended those regulations.